05sep06

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim!!!

"Gents," a fat man said in a hotel smoking room, "I hate to hear you lambasting lawyers the way you've been doing. A lawyer last year made me a present of one hundred and fifty dollars."
"Yes, he did!"
"Come off!"
"What are you giving us?"
But these gibes and jeers didn't move the fat man.
"It's the solemn truth, gents," he said. "You see, I was injured in a railroad accident last year, and this lawyer sued the railroad company, and got five thousand dollars damage. His bill was five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars, but he didn't say a word about the one hundred and fifty dollars balance. He made me a present of it."


Quote for the day:

He saw a lawyer killing a viper
On a dunghill hard by his own stable;
And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind
Of Cain and his brother Abel.---S. T. Coleridge